IN THE SPIRIT OF OPENNESS and full disclosure that the Millennial
Generation treasures, the readers of this book should be forewarned that
two life-long Democrats wrote it. Both of us have shared a deep passion
for politics and baseball, not necessarily in that order. Along the way, we
rooted for the same political party, if not always the same baseball teams.
We have also both been fortunate enough to pursue rewarding careers
in the private sector.

We did, however, take time out from those more personal pursuits
to help orchestrate the successful resurrection of the Michigan Democratic Party after it was buried in the 1972 Nixon landslide. One of us,
Mike Hais, supplied the survey research data for Carl Levin's first successful campaign for the U.S. Senate, in 1978, against Senator Robert
Griffin, the Republican minority leader. Mike then helped Congressman Jim Blanchard win the state's gubernatorial election in 1982, ending a twenty-year Republican reign. The other author, Morley
Winograd, was the state party's chairman from 1973 until 1979, during
which time the party recaptured a majority of the state's congressional
delegation and, for a brief moment in time, both houses of the state legislature. Together, with the help of the great men and women of the
United Auto Workers, we turned the tables on the Republicans and
their ticket-splitting strategy, honed to perfection by Governors George
Romney and William Milliken in the 1960s and 1970s. We used that
approach to elect Democrats by splitting off moderate Republicans from
the increasingly conservative candidates the GOP was beginning to
nominate, even back then.

After the 1990 midterm elections, the Democratic Leadership
Council (DLC) invited Morley, along with Doug Ross, another Michigan Democratic friend, to deliver a presentation entitled “How to Win

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